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“My Unorthodox Life” star Julia Haart is being sued by her estranged husband who is accusing her of “illegally” withdrawing $850,000 from a company account.
Hart, 51, was fired Wednesday morning as CEO at Elite World Group, the company run by her soon-to-be ex Silvio Scaglia, whom she filed for divorce from just hours later.
Asked what the tipping point was for her sacking, a source familiar with the company told Page Six: “The way she ran this company as her personal pocketbook.”
There is an allegation in the complaint that Haart’s office was allegedly responsible for a “huge increase in corporate costs and expenses”
An Elite insider who knows Haart said, “Julia was spending on extras like travel, glam, clothes, driver. She has a full-time driver and two Bentleys. She has a Hamptons rental, she flies private, she stays at the penthouse at luxury hotels … She has custom Chanel and Gucci. She’s one of the top spenders globally at Louis Vuitton.”
Haart has vowed to fight her firing, her lawyers said. As Page Six exclusively reported, she filed for a restraining order against Scaglia Thursday night, accusing him of threatening her and anti-Semitism.
Court documents seen by Page Six claim that Scaglia’s “suit arises from Defendant Julia Haart’s misappropriation of $850,000 out of the company’s bank account.
“Haart made the illegal withdrawal upon receiving notice from the directors of Elite World Group LLC (‘EWG’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Freedom Holding, that they would be voting at the next board meeting, February 11, 2022, on a proposal to dismiss her as chief executive officer. The very next day, Haart illegally transferred $850,000 from Freedom Holding to Defendant Haart Dynasty LLC, a limited liability company controlled by Haart,” the lawsuit alleges.
The suit includes alleged documentation of the wire transfer.
The filing claims that Haart breached an agreement she signed with Scaglia by taking out more than the withdrawal limit of $250,000, using the account for mortgage payments and living expenses.
It also states that Haart moved the money over to her own company, Haart Dynasty LLC. The suit includes the letter sent to Haart informing her of the reasons for her firing — and admonishing her for spending too much money in her role as CEO.
The letter, signed by Scaglia and Deputy Chairman Paolo Barbieri, states that the company is in “severe financial distress.” While the “pandemic crisis contributed to this situation,” they claim that losses are “mainly attributal to a huge increase in corporate costs and attributal to the CEO office, well beyond the budgeted amounts.”
The letter alleges that the brand e1972, designed by Haart, costs the company millions of dollars and that she “failed to raise fresh capital from new investors” or “develop the digital division.”
It also claimed that, under her reign, the company — which boasts some of the world’s biggest models as clients, including Kendall Jenner, Naomi Campbell, Karlie Kloss, Winnie Harlow and Amber Valletta — had lost its “relevance”.
Haart flaunted her luxury lifestyle on her Netflix reality show, giving viewers a glimpse of the $65 million Tribeca home she shared with Scaglia and sporting expensive designer outfits.
Her Instagram account also features her five-star travel, with stays at some of the world’s fanciest hotels, such as the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris — which she called her “home away from home” — where rooms can start at more than $2,000 a night.
The source familiar with the company added: “Julia had bought millions of dollars worth of bags and clothes and fripperies. The tipping point came with her incredible spending [and] using the company treasury to finance her incredible standard of living.”
A spokesperson for Scaglia told Page Six Friday: “This is just another day in the life of an aspiring reality TV star, aiming to divert the attention from the factual misappropriation claim just filed against her.”
Haart was said to be stunned when she was sacked on Wednesday. And she won’t leave the company without a fight. Her attorney, Richard Edlin of Greenberg Traurig, told Page Six, “The action taken to remove Julia Haart from her position as CEO was unauthorized and of no legal effect. She is a 50 percent owner of the business and one [of] the two directors. Unfortunately, this comes at a time when Julia and Silvio are in the beginning of divorce proceedings. Julia will enforce all of her legal rights and remedies.”
Page Six has reached out to Haart’s reps for comment.
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